Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 Last update: 3:48 p.m.
POLL QUESTION
Doctors, safety experts blast bill to overturn Maine seat belt law
1 hour agoAUGUSTA | A bill that would lift the requirement that adults wear seat belts in Maine encountered head-on resistance Friday from advocates who argued …
VIDEO
Watch rookie musher’s first time taking sled dogs on run
54 mins agoFORT KENT | The 2015 Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Races is happening in northern Maine this weekend. Mushers from around the United States …
1 hour ago
Price surge pushes Maine lobster catch value to all-time high
Maine’s lobster catch brought in an estimated $456.9 million to fishermen in 2014, an all-time high that was driven by the largest one-year increase in …
7-month sentence for child sex assaults spurs midcoast movement
APPLETON | A seven-month jail sentence imposed this week for a man convicted of …
REGION:
UMPI, MSSM deal lets high schoolers earn associate degree
37 mins agoPRESQUE ISLE | Amid coping with the rigorous academic structure and navigating the difficult …
Shaw’s fights Teamsters’ effort to unionize Maine pharmacists
PORTLAND | Shaw’s Supermarkets is fighting an effort by the Teamsters union to organize …
- Chicago firm buys The Highlands retirement community in Topsham
- Notre Dame icon Father Hesburgh dies at 97
- Where Have You Gone?
- Firefighters battle blaze in Dedham
- Money reported stolen from Medomak Valley boys basketball team
- Oklahoma firm wants to use South Portland rail yard for gas terminal
Opinion
EDITORIALS
Maine has made itself a vehicle registration haven
Police and municipal officials in Connecticut are miffed that residents who owe property taxes are registering their cars in Maine to escape their debts. In …
Sports
Bangor eager to battle Lewiston in hockey semifinal showdown
The Bangor High School Rams and Lewiston Blue Devils met twice during the regular season, and the Rams turned in 30 minutes of good hockey …
Health
CATCHING HEALTH (blog)
A Hard-Learned Lesson about Shingles
It was the beginning of a Labor Day weekend when Al felt a strange sensation on his right buttock, just underneath his back pocket where …
Business
Price surge pushes Maine lobster catch value to all-time high
Maine’s lobster catch brought in an estimated $456.9 million to fishermen in 2014, an all-time high that was driven by the largest one-year increase in …
Living
ROOTED IN ME (blog)
How to survive a Maine winter
As a fellow Maine transplant, I love reading about Jennifer’s adventures as a mom, writer and southerner living in Maine. Her recent $10 kitchen remodel …
Outdoors
VIDEO
Watch rookie musher’s first time taking sled dogs on run
FORT KENT | The 2015 Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Races is happening in northern Maine this weekend. Mushers from around the United States …
Food
MAINE COURSE (blog)
Find a Piece of Maine at b.good in Boston
Slipping and sliding, my kids and I walked in the bitter cold last Thursday from our Boston hotel to b.good, a burger joint with a …
Events
CULTURE SHOCK (blog)
Lady Antebellum to return to Bangor Waterfront, with guest Hunter Hayes
Lady Antebellum, multi-platinum country trio, will play its third concert at the Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion this summer, when they return to Bangor on Thursday, June …
- CULTURE SHOCK (blog): 5 Things To Do This Weekend, Feb. 27-March 1: Goodbye, February, you miserable so-n-so
- BACKSTAGE (blog): Penobscot Theatre Company presents “End Days”: a Maine Premiere
- GEORGE'S OUTDOOR NEWS (blog): Join us March 6,7 for Bob Duschesne’s Birding Adventure with Maine Huts and Trails
